Bed-bottom fabric.



assembled-and may making a wire WILLIAM H. .sm rencr, or sr. Louis, rarssonsr.

BED-BOTTOM FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Application filetf'August 8, 1910. Serial No. 576,116.

of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Bottom Fab-v rics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a bed-bottom fabric-composed of a plurality of wire unitsin interengagement with each other, and which fabric is designed to be connected to a bed frame in any suitable manner, but

preferably by springs locatedbetween the fabric and the frame, thereby making a complete bed bottom.

The object of the present invention is to produce an extremely simple, inexpensive and efficient bed bottom fabric, 'andone in which the fabric units may-be very readily be individually removed in the event of occasion for their removal.

Figure I is an inverted pla n view of a fragment of my bed bottom fabric. Fig. II is a erspective view of one of the units of the abric.

In the accompanying drawings z-A designates the wire units that enter into the structure of my bed-bottom fabric, these units all being of similar construction. The units are made of single pieces of wire and are of U-shape, as seen most clearly in Fig. II. Inasmuch as the units are similar, I will first describe in detail one of them: In unit, I so bend the wire as :to produce side strands 1, a cross strand or connecting strand 2 by which the side strands are connected, and eyes 3 located at the junctions of the s ide strands and the connecting strand. The eyes 3 are produced by bending portions of the side strands and the connecting strand out of alinement with said strands, and these eyes, by reason of portions of them being out of alinement with the body of the connecting strand, provide pockets that receive membersof companion units of thebed bottom fabric, as will hereinafter more fully appear. The side strands 1 of the unit terminate at their free ends in hooks 4 that are produced by bending the ends of these side strands back wardly relative to the bodies of the strands.

In assembling the units of which my bed bottom fabric is made up, said unit-satire so their ends occupy the .eyes at the inner side strands of cme unit will lie, parallel with and adjacent to a side strand of an adjoining unit, and the eyes 3 at the inner ends of these adjoining strands will lie one upon another and in overlapping relation.

Y The entire number of units in a row of them extending transversely of the fabric are assembled in this manner, and it will be readily understood that the eyes of the several units in a transverse row overlap in the manner stated, except at the side edges of the fabric, where there areonly single side strands, in view of this being the terminus of the row and, therefore,only single eyes 3. The structure at the sides of the fabric is seen at the left hand side of Fig. I.

units, as just described, may be considered as applied to the endmost row ofunits, as seen in Fig. I. The next transverse row of units is connected to the first described row by the hooks 4 of the units in the second row, and inasmuch as the units in this second row are similar to those in the first row, same relative positions bed bottom fabric as by the units in the first row. the sidemost side strands of second row are fitted to the longitudinally of the those occupied The hooks 4 of the units in the of the sidemost units of the first row, and intermediate of these points the side strands of adjacent units. are connected by their hooks in pairs to the overlapping eyes at the inner ends of the strands directly or substantially in alinement therewith. It will therefore be understood that each closely adjoining-pair of side strands of the units in the bed bottom fabric serve by their presence in the overlapping eyes of a pair of units in front of them to connect these units; and, further, that, inasmuch as the closely adjoining strands and overlapping eyes just referred to including two of the eyes of different units, the hooks of the side strands of difierent units are caused to retain their positions in said eyes when the bed bottom fabric is drawn taut, as it must necessarily be before placing it in service.

In placing my bed-bottom fabric in a bed bottom, the units of the endmost rows of the fabric are connected to thebed bottom frame in any suitable manner, but preferably by the employment of he a1 springs Patented Mays, roar;

located relative to each other that one of the The building up of one transverse row of I produce pockets, eachends of the side strands and placed in engagement with the eyes 3 5, and the units of one endinost row maybe connected by placing hooks 4 of the units in this row in eyes of the helical springs. The units of the other endmost row mayv be connected to the bed bottom frame by attachment of several helical springs secured to the frame at that end of the bed bottom of the bed bottom fabric units in the adjoining endmost row of units.

I claim j 1. A bed-botto1n fabric comprising Wire units of U-shape arranged in rows and each including a pair of side strands, a connecting strand between said side strands, eyes at the junctions of the side and connecting strands, the eyes of adjoining units overlap ping each other, and the. side strands of:

units in one row being connected to overlapping eyes of the units in an adjoining row;

2. A bed-bottom fabric, comprising Wire units of U-shape arranged in rows and each including a pair of side strands, a connecting strand between said side strands, and eyes at the junctions of the side and connecting strands, the eyes of the adjoining units overlapping each other, and the side strands of the units in one row being proyided with hooks engaging the overlapping eyes of-units in an adjoining roux WILLIAM H. SLEIGI-l'l.

In the presence of J. G. Fnaonrmne, E. B. LINN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents;

Washington, D. C. 

